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[Rock Band] Dimmu Borgir and The Strumbellas

Did you know you can still play games at home with plastic musical instruments, like you could in the mid-00s? It's true! Harmonix has been a pioneer in the rhythm game field for years, bringing us FreQuency, Amplitude, Karaoke Revolution, and Guitar Hero. In 2007, they brought a room full of plastic instruments together with the release of Rock Band, and the platform is alive and thriving to this day. New song releases every week!

What Songs Can I Play?

As of this writing, there are 2611 songs on the Rock Band platform. The vast majority of these are available in Rock Band 4: either on disc, as an import from an older game, or as DLC. Want to browse the selections? No problem!

Okay, Halls of Valhalla is 5*able for me and I already got a high 5* on The Stage, but that song from The Red Chords can die in a freaking fire, I'll probably just do a quick run on Hard for it, because it's expert note chart sucks donkey balls.

High point of tonight's little 45 minute session, I finally GS'd Hallowed Be Thy Name.

First they came for the Muslims and we said...NOT TODAY MOTHERFUCKERS!

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Oh, we at Platinum now, Diamond is the next plateau. You may have to do heavy lifting on the 1st 2 Spotlight songs, I don't see myself putting in the time and effort to GS them on guitar. The Stage is doable with some practice this weekend.

Kinda disappointed with some omissions from this events songs. No Pretty Reckless and no Halestorm mostly. They're borderline but scrolling the included songs there's quite a few that are borderline metal.

They said this week was done by just marking all songs as metal or nu metal as valid, and can't go in an add individual borderline songs.

My guess is there's two methods, and they haven't written the toolchain glue to unite them.

Also, to continue the covers conversation from the old thread, special mention goes to Last Train to Clarksville. A cover done by session musicians of a band who covered/mimed the recordings of session musicians that actually performed the album versions of Monkees song

They said this week was done by just marking all songs as metal or nu metal as valid, and can't go in an add individual borderline songs.

My guess is there's two methods, and they haven't written the toolchain glue to unite them.

Also, to continue the covers conversation from the old thread, special mention goes to Last Train to Clarksville. A cover done by session musicians of a band who covered/mimed the recordings of session musicians that actually performed the album versions of Monkees song

Famously, The Monkees were not permitted by their management to function as a working band for this album, with the group's contributions limited almost entirely to vocal tracks. Eight of the original LP's twelve tracks feature one lone Monkee singing lead vocal over instrumentation (and even backing vocals) recorded entirely by session musicians. Other tracks feature multiple Monkees singing over session players; only on the two tracks produced by Michael Nesmith does a Monkee (Peter Tork) get to play an instrument (guitar). (Note that Nesmith also wrote or co-wrote these two tracks.) No tracks on the original LP feature participation from all four Monkees.

That sounds more difficult to me than doing the actual song, but then I'm not a prodigious farter. Seriously, though, my wife's the one who sings in our band; I don't really know what does and does not count as correct in those passages that aren't sung. To what extent does rhythm come into it?

"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods

Only Rock Band 1 did any form of beat/constanant/vowel detection. It was not fun. And thus talkies have been gimmes since RB2. With only Beatles outright just not even counting them (but still had them charted) for scoring purposes

Is there any room in the Xbox crew? Got Rivals for Christmas, would love to have an excuse to play the game a couple of times a week.

Crews cap at 10, so we can't add people without removing someone. Not everyone in the crew is active, so this is probably possible... but it's Perrsun's call. I know there are other Xbox crews with PA folks, but I don't know what they are called. Anyone? Anyone?

In other news, I did a vocal run. Hour of Rats is a trivial FC, of course. I probably could improve my score with some path planning, but then I'd have to listen to it again. No thanks. I did terribly on Halls of Valhalla because I keep coughing in the middle of phrases and breaking streak. Hopefully I'll recover before the challenge ends and I can improve. Don't have the A7X track and not buying it just for the challenge.

Gotcha. Don't kick anyone on my account, but if someone else has a crew they'd like a decent guitar/bass and not great drummer/singer player for, let me know. My Xbox live is the same as my forum handle.

Put in an hour of metal this evening, getting the Xbox crew to safety (for now). Had to play on hard to get to 5 star performances - tried expert, couldn't break 3 stars on Hangar 18 or Tornado of Souls.
Ow. My fretting fingers.

Gotcha. Don't kick anyone on my account, but if someone else has a crew they'd like a decent guitar/bass and not great drummer/singer player for, let me know. My Xbox live is the same as my forum handle.

I just started too! Let us team up and lame it out. How about... "All-Arcadian Rejects"? ;D